1 00:00:05,160 --> 00:00:10,760 Speaker 1: Live from vall Hartbeiner and the Crossroads of America. It's 2 00:00:10,840 --> 00:00:17,360 Speaker 1: Tony Katz today. 3 00:00:18,800 --> 00:00:26,000 Speaker 2: Maduro is about to meet with a judge. I only 4 00:00:27,320 --> 00:00:32,560 Speaker 2: can say okay, because that's not the story. That he's 5 00:00:32,640 --> 00:00:35,760 Speaker 2: going to get more justice in the United States than 6 00:00:35,800 --> 00:00:38,800 Speaker 2: he ever gave any dissident in Venezuela. 7 00:00:40,240 --> 00:00:45,280 Speaker 3: The irony is not lost on me, Tony Katz. 8 00:00:45,640 --> 00:00:47,839 Speaker 2: Tony Katz today, Good to be here, Good to be 9 00:00:47,960 --> 00:00:50,920 Speaker 2: with you. Find everything over at Tony kats dot com. 10 00:00:51,080 --> 00:00:53,360 Speaker 2: I hope you had a wonderful New year. I hope 11 00:00:53,360 --> 00:00:55,600 Speaker 2: you're ready to get back at it live streaming on 12 00:00:55,640 --> 00:00:59,120 Speaker 2: the YouTube YouTube dot com slash Tony Katz. You should 13 00:00:59,120 --> 00:01:06,760 Speaker 2: get over there immediately, if not sooner. It's story of 14 00:01:06,800 --> 00:01:10,360 Speaker 2: the capture of Maduro that has so many on the 15 00:01:10,440 --> 00:01:18,160 Speaker 2: left so incredibly apoplectic. They're apoplectic because they're children. Now 16 00:01:18,240 --> 00:01:21,920 Speaker 2: that should be seen differently as an attack on people 17 00:01:21,920 --> 00:01:25,000 Speaker 2: who are millennials with gen Z etc. No, no, no, no, 18 00:01:26,040 --> 00:01:31,920 Speaker 2: We've seen enough old liberal white women, enough boomers to 19 00:01:31,959 --> 00:01:33,880 Speaker 2: be a part of this group to know that this 20 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:38,120 Speaker 2: isn't about your age. This is about your intellectual hefton 21 00:01:38,120 --> 00:01:43,039 Speaker 2: capacity actually believing somehow somewhere on some magical planet. 22 00:01:44,200 --> 00:01:47,320 Speaker 3: That this communism still provides a value. 23 00:01:47,520 --> 00:01:50,520 Speaker 2: You want people out there engaged in protest against the 24 00:01:50,520 --> 00:01:51,760 Speaker 2: capture of Maduro. 25 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:54,000 Speaker 3: Screaming no war for oil. 26 00:01:55,600 --> 00:02:03,680 Speaker 2: God, the level of ignorance, the incredible level of ignorance. 27 00:02:06,680 --> 00:02:09,480 Speaker 2: Does anybody even know what they mean when they say 28 00:02:10,080 --> 00:02:14,280 Speaker 2: a war for oil? Is anybody aware of what they mean? 29 00:02:15,080 --> 00:02:16,200 Speaker 3: We will go through it. 30 00:02:17,080 --> 00:02:21,000 Speaker 2: But let's start with Maduro, going back to when the 31 00:02:21,120 --> 00:02:24,320 Speaker 2: Biden administration had a twenty five million dollar reward for 32 00:02:24,360 --> 00:02:30,560 Speaker 2: his capture, going back to the recognition that he was 33 00:02:31,040 --> 00:02:34,520 Speaker 2: defying the will of the people. He was not elected, 34 00:02:34,600 --> 00:02:38,080 Speaker 2: yet he stayed in power. Go back to his predecessor, 35 00:02:38,400 --> 00:02:43,600 Speaker 2: the low life Hugo Chavez, who said of George Bush 36 00:02:43,639 --> 00:02:46,680 Speaker 2: after speaking at the UN, and I smell sulfur at 37 00:02:46,720 --> 00:02:52,640 Speaker 2: this podium, as if George Bush was the devil who expropriated. 38 00:02:52,040 --> 00:02:54,240 Speaker 3: Company after company after company, took. 39 00:02:54,080 --> 00:02:57,959 Speaker 2: Control of American oil interests in Venezuela, to which the 40 00:02:58,040 --> 00:03:02,799 Speaker 2: Venezuelans profited, and took it for himself and led the 41 00:03:02,840 --> 00:03:08,200 Speaker 2: people of Venezuela from being outrageously prosperous to eating pigeons 42 00:03:08,240 --> 00:03:09,519 Speaker 2: in two decades. 43 00:03:10,120 --> 00:03:12,440 Speaker 3: That's what communism does. 44 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:16,560 Speaker 2: And so we're clear, all those people protesting no war 45 00:03:16,639 --> 00:03:19,239 Speaker 2: for oil while they're wearing caffeas are part of this 46 00:03:19,400 --> 00:03:23,280 Speaker 2: Red Green alliance. They are indeed communists. They're the worst 47 00:03:23,400 --> 00:03:27,240 Speaker 2: of the worst. They favor death and destruction. They have 48 00:03:27,400 --> 00:03:30,840 Speaker 2: no concepts that can actually provide a value, as opposed 49 00:03:30,880 --> 00:03:34,960 Speaker 2: to capitalism, which always provides a value. They're wrong, and 50 00:03:34,960 --> 00:03:39,960 Speaker 2: they're the enemies of America. That's a harsh statement, but 51 00:03:40,040 --> 00:03:44,800 Speaker 2: they are what they are, what they are. They're the enemy. 52 00:03:45,680 --> 00:03:49,240 Speaker 2: The communists are the enemy. And this Red Green Alliance, 53 00:03:49,440 --> 00:03:53,400 Speaker 2: which is the Communists and the Islamists looking forward and 54 00:03:53,480 --> 00:03:57,520 Speaker 2: trying desperately to engage the destruction of Western civilization an 55 00:03:57,560 --> 00:04:01,600 Speaker 2: American might and strength. That's the desire, that's the goal. 56 00:04:01,920 --> 00:04:04,440 Speaker 2: That's what they're about. That's why they're in tandem. For 57 00:04:04,480 --> 00:04:07,440 Speaker 2: what other reason is the communist playing dress up and 58 00:04:07,480 --> 00:04:12,720 Speaker 2: wearing the kafia, which is both solely a oppression. Come 59 00:04:12,800 --> 00:04:18,279 Speaker 2: fight me on this. I'll debate this all day. They're 60 00:04:18,279 --> 00:04:24,000 Speaker 2: not like us, They're not Americans like us. These Americans 61 00:04:24,040 --> 00:04:26,520 Speaker 2: who want to see America fail, which is of course 62 00:04:26,680 --> 00:04:30,599 Speaker 2: the question going into this midterm election. Do you want 63 00:04:30,600 --> 00:04:35,839 Speaker 2: a future for America. Yes or no, that's the question, 64 00:04:36,839 --> 00:04:39,200 Speaker 2: that is the only question. Do you want a future 65 00:04:39,200 --> 00:04:41,200 Speaker 2: for your children? Do you want a future for your daughters? 66 00:04:41,240 --> 00:04:44,200 Speaker 2: Do you want a future for society? Because if you 67 00:04:44,320 --> 00:04:49,799 Speaker 2: let these low life commies take hold, you have none. 68 00:04:49,960 --> 00:04:51,680 Speaker 3: And Mam Donnie proves this. Don't worry. 69 00:04:51,680 --> 00:04:57,560 Speaker 2: I'll get into Mam Donnie's inaugural and his issues with 70 00:04:57,800 --> 00:05:03,040 Speaker 2: rugged individualism. He believes in the warmth of collectivism. Dear God, 71 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:07,320 Speaker 2: this guy is gonna smile as he starves your kids. 72 00:05:08,560 --> 00:05:11,240 Speaker 2: But Tony, you can't talk like that. It all sounds 73 00:05:11,279 --> 00:05:16,559 Speaker 2: so hyperbolic. Let's talk about no war for oil. Let's 74 00:05:16,560 --> 00:05:19,000 Speaker 2: talk about this thing that was happening and that was 75 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:28,680 Speaker 2: occurring where the lefties out there. They immediately took to 76 00:05:28,720 --> 00:05:34,640 Speaker 2: the streets. They took to the streets to say no 77 00:05:34,800 --> 00:05:39,440 Speaker 2: war for oil. And they were upset, and they were angry, 78 00:05:39,480 --> 00:05:43,520 Speaker 2: and they were all the things that one could could imagine. 79 00:05:44,960 --> 00:05:46,400 Speaker 3: Do we understand what that means? 80 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:52,239 Speaker 2: Because I don't believe they do, because they are incredibly 81 00:05:52,800 --> 00:05:56,520 Speaker 2: ignorant and shortsighted people. You'll notice that this is the 82 00:05:56,560 --> 00:05:59,640 Speaker 2: third or fourth time I've said something derogatory about them. 83 00:06:00,960 --> 00:06:04,080 Speaker 2: I have to figure out how not to curse on radio. 84 00:06:05,240 --> 00:06:08,880 Speaker 2: Everything after that I'm allowed to do. And since I'm 85 00:06:08,920 --> 00:06:11,960 Speaker 2: not a guy who is going to engage in the 86 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:15,800 Speaker 2: foul language, I am the guy who's going to say 87 00:06:15,960 --> 00:06:20,279 Speaker 2: very clearly, these people are fools, and they're a danger 88 00:06:20,560 --> 00:06:26,600 Speaker 2: to you, to society, and to your kids. They're a danger. 89 00:06:27,960 --> 00:06:32,320 Speaker 2: It can't be said any other way. And when I 90 00:06:32,440 --> 00:06:38,480 Speaker 2: say they not like us, I mean it. They are 91 00:06:38,480 --> 00:06:45,120 Speaker 2: not like us. They don't believe in America's future. 92 00:06:46,120 --> 00:06:47,320 Speaker 3: No war for oil. 93 00:06:47,520 --> 00:06:51,320 Speaker 2: What in the world does that actually mean, no war 94 00:06:52,080 --> 00:06:57,000 Speaker 2: for oil. Well, in the pseudo intellectualism of their arguments, 95 00:06:59,040 --> 00:07:03,640 Speaker 2: what they mean is there is absolutely no reason whatsoever, 96 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:07,000 Speaker 2: no reason whatsoever, we should be engaged in a war 97 00:07:07,120 --> 00:07:09,320 Speaker 2: action so we can control somebody's oil. 98 00:07:09,520 --> 00:07:15,280 Speaker 3: That's imperialism. Let's start where we start. 99 00:07:15,040 --> 00:07:17,680 Speaker 2: Here, just so you have all the tools at your 100 00:07:17,720 --> 00:07:21,560 Speaker 2: disposal to be able to engage properly with these people 101 00:07:21,720 --> 00:07:22,240 Speaker 2: who are. 102 00:07:22,200 --> 00:07:24,800 Speaker 3: Out of their minds. And they may very well. 103 00:07:24,680 --> 00:07:28,040 Speaker 2: Be your aunt, your uncle, your parents, your brother, your sister, boyfriend, girlfriend. 104 00:07:28,040 --> 00:07:28,720 Speaker 3: I don't know. 105 00:07:32,080 --> 00:07:35,600 Speaker 2: When Hugo Chavez took power, he engaged in expropriation. There's 106 00:07:35,680 --> 00:07:38,640 Speaker 2: video out of there of him walking down streets. We 107 00:07:38,680 --> 00:07:40,320 Speaker 2: expropriate there, We expropriate there. 108 00:07:40,320 --> 00:07:42,440 Speaker 3: And now, of course he's not doing it in English. 109 00:07:42,440 --> 00:07:45,840 Speaker 2: But we're going to take control of all these buildings. 110 00:07:45,840 --> 00:07:47,640 Speaker 2: We're gonna take control of all these places. We're gonna 111 00:07:47,680 --> 00:07:55,679 Speaker 2: take control of all these areas. When that happened. When 112 00:07:56,120 --> 00:08:07,320 Speaker 2: that happened, he took American hardware. He took what is 113 00:08:07,600 --> 00:08:11,600 Speaker 2: rightfully property of the United States, United States companies. Now 114 00:08:11,600 --> 00:08:14,440 Speaker 2: the Communist doesn't accept this, because the Communist doesn't believe 115 00:08:14,440 --> 00:08:16,720 Speaker 2: in personal property rights. But the Communist is a wholly 116 00:08:16,800 --> 00:08:20,720 Speaker 2: damned fool, including Zarn Mamdani and everybody who ever supported him. 117 00:08:21,800 --> 00:08:26,600 Speaker 2: But we should start there with that theft. Then we 118 00:08:26,640 --> 00:08:30,680 Speaker 2: should recognize that the oil was not utilized for the 119 00:08:30,720 --> 00:08:35,440 Speaker 2: benefit of the society event as well, it was used 120 00:08:35,480 --> 00:08:39,000 Speaker 2: for the benefit of Hugos Javes and then Nicholas Maduro, 121 00:08:40,320 --> 00:08:44,840 Speaker 2: not caring about the people. With Maduro's arrest, you could 122 00:08:44,880 --> 00:08:48,840 Speaker 2: argue it's a drug charge, it's a gun charge. Capone 123 00:08:48,880 --> 00:08:51,480 Speaker 2: was capone and they got it for taxivation. You could 124 00:08:51,520 --> 00:08:53,920 Speaker 2: argue this is the same thing, but as a much deeper, 125 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:57,280 Speaker 2: deeper meaning as well. What he's charged with versus what 126 00:08:57,320 --> 00:09:03,960 Speaker 2: he's done. One could clearly state that there is an 127 00:09:03,960 --> 00:09:05,120 Speaker 2: opportunity here. 128 00:09:06,920 --> 00:09:07,720 Speaker 3: For the people of. 129 00:09:07,800 --> 00:09:12,360 Speaker 2: Venezuela to be made whole, to have a better life. 130 00:09:12,520 --> 00:09:15,239 Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, the people of Venezuela are celebrating, 131 00:09:15,520 --> 00:09:18,040 Speaker 2: to which the leftists in the United States is outraged. 132 00:09:18,200 --> 00:09:19,760 Speaker 3: How could you be celebrating? 133 00:09:21,600 --> 00:09:25,920 Speaker 2: The leftist has to live through the policies that Americans, 134 00:09:26,360 --> 00:09:28,679 Speaker 2: American liberals fantasize about. 135 00:09:29,960 --> 00:09:30,920 Speaker 3: They play about. 136 00:09:31,679 --> 00:09:34,720 Speaker 2: Remember all of those protests that we saw at Columbia 137 00:09:34,800 --> 00:09:35,600 Speaker 2: University or whatever. 138 00:09:35,840 --> 00:09:37,480 Speaker 3: These are people playing dress up. 139 00:09:37,600 --> 00:09:40,560 Speaker 2: They put on the Kafia and they pretend that they're 140 00:09:40,600 --> 00:09:43,160 Speaker 2: being locked out and they have to stay in this building, 141 00:09:43,320 --> 00:09:46,280 Speaker 2: and here's the administration. They won't even bring people water. 142 00:09:46,520 --> 00:09:49,719 Speaker 2: Bring your own damn water. There's a bathroom, Go get 143 00:09:49,760 --> 00:09:54,160 Speaker 2: some water. What's wrong with you? You have uber eats 144 00:09:54,240 --> 00:09:57,560 Speaker 2: on your phone. But they're play acting like they're the 145 00:09:57,640 --> 00:10:02,360 Speaker 2: poor people of Hamas, lot of Gaza, not of people 146 00:10:02,440 --> 00:10:06,080 Speaker 2: being slaughtered by Hamas. They play acted that they were 147 00:10:06,160 --> 00:10:10,040 Speaker 2: Hamas because they have nothing they could do with their lives. 148 00:10:10,200 --> 00:10:12,520 Speaker 2: They have no issues, they have no problems, there's nothing 149 00:10:12,559 --> 00:10:15,360 Speaker 2: wrong going on with them. They have to pretend that 150 00:10:15,440 --> 00:10:19,920 Speaker 2: they are outraged, and since they have been trained through 151 00:10:19,920 --> 00:10:22,040 Speaker 2: their high school years and through their college years, and 152 00:10:22,080 --> 00:10:26,079 Speaker 2: through culture to hate America's existence and to hate Western civilization. 153 00:10:26,720 --> 00:10:29,280 Speaker 2: Anything that can be seen as a pressed or pressor 154 00:10:29,280 --> 00:10:31,760 Speaker 2: that's something they play with because that's the only thing 155 00:10:31,800 --> 00:10:34,240 Speaker 2: that they know. And America has to be the oppressor 156 00:10:34,520 --> 00:10:37,840 Speaker 2: in all cases. Maduro to them is not an oppressor. 157 00:10:37,880 --> 00:10:40,880 Speaker 2: America is. But the people who have actually lived through 158 00:10:40,920 --> 00:10:43,680 Speaker 2: it understand that the United States just did them a 159 00:10:43,720 --> 00:10:49,080 Speaker 2: tremendous favor. And they are in the streets celebrating because 160 00:10:49,120 --> 00:10:55,080 Speaker 2: twenty six years of this hell was enough. All of 161 00:10:55,080 --> 00:10:58,600 Speaker 2: these lefties in the United States, all of these Karens, 162 00:10:58,640 --> 00:11:02,520 Speaker 2: all of these liberal white women, these terrible people play 163 00:11:02,600 --> 00:11:04,400 Speaker 2: actors children. 164 00:11:05,080 --> 00:11:06,080 Speaker 3: That's how I started. 165 00:11:08,320 --> 00:11:14,360 Speaker 2: The oil will be sold and the people of Venezuela 166 00:11:14,360 --> 00:11:19,320 Speaker 2: will profit. Warf oil is not a bad thing. Let 167 00:11:19,360 --> 00:11:21,360 Speaker 2: me say it again, warfo oil is not a bad thing. 168 00:11:21,400 --> 00:11:24,120 Speaker 2: I'll say it one more time. There are a lot 169 00:11:24,160 --> 00:11:29,400 Speaker 2: of wars. Oil is a big deal, and only children 170 00:11:29,440 --> 00:11:33,679 Speaker 2: don't think so. The problem for them is, and maybe 171 00:11:33,760 --> 00:11:36,960 Speaker 2: some other people haven't thought about it this way. What 172 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:40,360 Speaker 2: do we mean by a war for oil? What is 173 00:11:40,400 --> 00:11:45,400 Speaker 2: it that we're referring to. One must understand Frederick Bostiacht, 174 00:11:46,200 --> 00:11:52,920 Speaker 2: the economist Bostiacht with one of the something I talk 175 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:57,640 Speaker 2: about all the time to myself. 176 00:11:58,960 --> 00:12:02,120 Speaker 3: Is the idea of what is seen versus what is unseen. 177 00:12:02,200 --> 00:12:05,240 Speaker 2: Now, a lot of us know this, and and I 178 00:12:05,280 --> 00:12:08,080 Speaker 2: guess an economist would would would engage it differently. 179 00:12:08,160 --> 00:12:08,880 Speaker 3: And I don't want. 180 00:12:08,760 --> 00:12:14,040 Speaker 2: To say that my definition is pitch perfect, but I 181 00:12:14,080 --> 00:12:18,120 Speaker 2: think is close enough for government work what is seen 182 00:12:18,200 --> 00:12:21,160 Speaker 2: and what is unseen, which another way could be said 183 00:12:21,320 --> 00:12:25,600 Speaker 2: of opportunity cost. Right somewhere amongst all of us we 184 00:12:25,640 --> 00:12:28,880 Speaker 2: have this, this basic concept of opportunity cost. And whether 185 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:32,600 Speaker 2: in business or not, if I do this, it means 186 00:12:32,600 --> 00:12:34,640 Speaker 2: I don't have time to do that. If I put 187 00:12:34,640 --> 00:12:36,439 Speaker 2: my money here, it doesn't mean I can put my 188 00:12:36,480 --> 00:12:37,120 Speaker 2: money there. 189 00:12:37,600 --> 00:12:39,440 Speaker 3: And you can apply it to business, apply it to life. 190 00:12:39,480 --> 00:12:41,560 Speaker 2: If I buy this pair of sneakers, if I get 191 00:12:41,559 --> 00:12:44,440 Speaker 2: these new Jordans, I can't afford this thing over here. 192 00:12:46,080 --> 00:12:50,679 Speaker 2: If I spend my time playing these video games, I 193 00:12:50,720 --> 00:12:55,960 Speaker 2: can't then do this other thing. Right, that's a way 194 00:12:56,000 --> 00:12:58,439 Speaker 2: to say it. You can't do it all. Opportunity cost 195 00:12:58,559 --> 00:13:02,280 Speaker 2: is investing. Hear me, I can't invest over there. Bassiat 196 00:13:03,160 --> 00:13:05,200 Speaker 2: discussed this as the scene and the unseen. 197 00:13:06,520 --> 00:13:07,599 Speaker 3: What you see. 198 00:13:09,320 --> 00:13:14,760 Speaker 2: Is America taking out Maduro, this thug, low life scumbag. 199 00:13:16,679 --> 00:13:19,320 Speaker 3: And what you see is the United. 200 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:25,000 Speaker 2: States gaining access control of this oil. And so the 201 00:13:25,120 --> 00:13:29,600 Speaker 2: leftist being of low mind and an unwillingness to engage 202 00:13:29,720 --> 00:13:31,720 Speaker 2: this process that you and I are doing right now, 203 00:13:32,120 --> 00:13:36,520 Speaker 2: because they are they're unwilling. They say, ah, so we're 204 00:13:36,520 --> 00:13:42,280 Speaker 2: stealing the oil. What they do not see is that 205 00:13:42,360 --> 00:13:49,280 Speaker 2: if we have the oil, China and Russia don't. This 206 00:13:49,320 --> 00:13:51,880 Speaker 2: will anger the leftist. But for the rest of us, 207 00:13:52,080 --> 00:13:55,080 Speaker 2: whether we're Republicans or conservatives or independents or moderates or 208 00:13:55,760 --> 00:14:00,440 Speaker 2: agnostic politically, we could see how that's a good thing, 209 00:14:03,280 --> 00:14:09,720 Speaker 2: starving the Russians, further starving the Chinese of their much 210 00:14:10,280 --> 00:14:15,520 Speaker 2: needed energy, preventing them from having a foothold in the 211 00:14:15,559 --> 00:14:18,080 Speaker 2: Western hemisphere, which is of course the conversation of the 212 00:14:18,080 --> 00:14:20,480 Speaker 2: Monroe doctrine coming back to life. 213 00:14:20,800 --> 00:14:24,320 Speaker 3: We'll get to that if we have. 214 00:14:24,440 --> 00:14:31,200 Speaker 2: Control, then the Chinese and the Russians don't. So we 215 00:14:31,280 --> 00:14:35,640 Speaker 2: took over another country to do that. No, we did, however, 216 00:14:36,040 --> 00:14:39,520 Speaker 2: take out a leader who was not the guy who 217 00:14:39,640 --> 00:14:42,400 Speaker 2: was the duly elected president. He wasn't the president, as 218 00:14:42,400 --> 00:14:45,600 Speaker 2: Marco Rubio Keith pointing out of Venezuela, but he was 219 00:14:45,640 --> 00:14:49,240 Speaker 2: controlling the country and he was allowing drugs to be 220 00:14:49,320 --> 00:14:52,160 Speaker 2: brought into our country, and he had to be stopped. 221 00:14:52,360 --> 00:14:53,480 Speaker 3: And yes, the. 222 00:14:53,320 --> 00:14:57,520 Speaker 2: President has precedent that allows him to make this move. 223 00:14:58,160 --> 00:15:00,600 Speaker 2: I don't argue you that there can't be a constitutional 224 00:15:00,640 --> 00:15:01,960 Speaker 2: conversation have take place. 225 00:15:02,400 --> 00:15:04,280 Speaker 3: Is this something that requires a declaration of war? We 226 00:15:04,320 --> 00:15:07,480 Speaker 3: brought it up here repeatedly, we discussed it. 227 00:15:07,480 --> 00:15:11,320 Speaker 2: We're not afraid of the subjects, but the left is 228 00:15:12,160 --> 00:15:12,840 Speaker 2: because they'll. 229 00:15:12,640 --> 00:15:14,640 Speaker 3: Scream about that and not see the precedent. 230 00:15:15,480 --> 00:15:18,000 Speaker 2: I believe we can go to Noriega and engage that 231 00:15:18,600 --> 00:15:23,200 Speaker 2: they won't see the better life for the Venezuelans, which 232 00:15:23,320 --> 00:15:26,520 Speaker 2: they are celebrating themselves, and they won't see the move 233 00:15:26,600 --> 00:15:32,920 Speaker 2: here geopolitically because they don't have the capacity for thought. 234 00:15:34,960 --> 00:15:38,200 Speaker 2: What it's time bandits. They're devoid the ravages of thought, 235 00:15:39,320 --> 00:15:42,560 Speaker 2: but we are not. There's a lot to what took 236 00:15:42,600 --> 00:15:46,960 Speaker 2: place over the weekend, including skill and precision, that is 237 00:15:47,080 --> 00:15:53,520 Speaker 2: hard to fathom. The communists are always wrong, The communists 238 00:15:53,520 --> 00:15:55,640 Speaker 2: are always dangerous. The communists are always deadly, and the 239 00:15:55,680 --> 00:15:58,560 Speaker 2: communists always have to be thwarted everywhere at all times, 240 00:15:58,680 --> 00:16:03,240 Speaker 2: including right here in the United States. The taking of Maduro. 241 00:16:04,800 --> 00:16:06,720 Speaker 2: The more I think about it, the more okay I 242 00:16:06,760 --> 00:16:12,280 Speaker 2: am with it, and what it is allowed creates great opportunity. 243 00:16:13,080 --> 00:16:15,200 Speaker 2: I'll have more on this, keep it here. I'm Tony Katz, 244 00:16:15,200 --> 00:16:17,040 Speaker 2: and this is Tony Katz Today. 245 00:16:17,080 --> 00:16:19,040 Speaker 3: I can't believe I have to say this out loud. 246 00:16:20,640 --> 00:16:22,640 Speaker 3: I did not buy a Rolls Royce. 247 00:16:25,480 --> 00:16:31,040 Speaker 2: I I cannot believe I have to say this. So, 248 00:16:31,160 --> 00:16:33,600 Speaker 2: first of all, Tony Kats, Tony Kats today, good to 249 00:16:33,640 --> 00:16:35,840 Speaker 2: be with you live streaming on YouTube. Come check it 250 00:16:35,840 --> 00:16:38,400 Speaker 2: out for yourself, YouTube dot com, slash Tony Katz. Come 251 00:16:38,520 --> 00:16:42,400 Speaker 2: be a part of it. I did not get a Rolls. 252 00:16:42,800 --> 00:16:48,680 Speaker 2: Here's what happened yesterday. So Sunday, everything was going fine, 253 00:16:48,840 --> 00:16:52,000 Speaker 2: going good. I'm posting some things, I'm doing my work. 254 00:16:54,200 --> 00:16:59,600 Speaker 2: I got hacked all of a sudden, can't log into 255 00:16:59,680 --> 00:17:00,480 Speaker 2: two Twitter X. 256 00:17:01,160 --> 00:17:03,640 Speaker 3: Huh, that's weird. I had just changed my password a 257 00:17:03,640 --> 00:17:06,800 Speaker 3: couple days before. It's very strange, and so I go 258 00:17:06,920 --> 00:17:08,520 Speaker 3: to it. The next thing I see. 259 00:17:10,560 --> 00:17:12,359 Speaker 2: Is that, you know, I go through the process to 260 00:17:12,640 --> 00:17:16,000 Speaker 2: recover something, and and and it has an email address 261 00:17:16,040 --> 00:17:19,159 Speaker 2: that's not mine. Literally, at that moment, I get a 262 00:17:19,160 --> 00:17:22,040 Speaker 2: text from a friend of mine you know you've been hacked, right, 263 00:17:22,040 --> 00:17:23,800 Speaker 2: And I'm like, how do you know I've been hacked? 264 00:17:24,680 --> 00:17:26,520 Speaker 2: I expect them to say, because I've done it, and 265 00:17:26,560 --> 00:17:27,600 Speaker 2: now I want all the bourbon. 266 00:17:28,440 --> 00:17:30,320 Speaker 3: No DM started going out. 267 00:17:30,760 --> 00:17:35,640 Speaker 2: Direct messages started going out from my account from this 268 00:17:36,160 --> 00:17:39,760 Speaker 2: loser schmuck who's trying to get everybody to buy crypto. 269 00:17:41,359 --> 00:17:44,159 Speaker 2: And so the post was, hey, look what did it 270 00:17:44,200 --> 00:17:47,040 Speaker 2: say producer Landon? Look what I got with my crypto earnings. 271 00:17:47,400 --> 00:17:49,360 Speaker 3: Yeah, it was something along the lines of like, well, 272 00:17:49,400 --> 00:17:51,800 Speaker 3: I've finally invested in enough crypto for years now and 273 00:17:51,840 --> 00:17:54,080 Speaker 3: I've been able to finally get my dream car of 274 00:17:54,080 --> 00:17:54,840 Speaker 3: a Rolls Royce. 275 00:17:55,720 --> 00:17:58,159 Speaker 2: So it said that I have invested and look at 276 00:17:58,160 --> 00:17:59,679 Speaker 2: my dream car, and it was a picture of a. 277 00:17:59,680 --> 00:18:02,400 Speaker 3: Roles STV I believe, Yeah, it was an STV. 278 00:18:04,960 --> 00:18:10,640 Speaker 2: So now allow me. I did not. First of all, 279 00:18:10,640 --> 00:18:14,119 Speaker 2: I was hacked. And what's weird is immediately trolls were 280 00:18:14,160 --> 00:18:16,439 Speaker 2: all over me about it. So I got to assume 281 00:18:16,440 --> 00:18:20,560 Speaker 2: one of the trolls did it. I am in charge 282 00:18:20,560 --> 00:18:25,639 Speaker 2: of these people's lives, it's so insane. Every day is 283 00:18:25,680 --> 00:18:30,920 Speaker 2: something else they live and die by by me being 284 00:18:30,960 --> 00:18:37,440 Speaker 2: in their head. It's crazy, surreal, and so first things first, 285 00:18:37,680 --> 00:18:40,960 Speaker 2: I did not buy a Rolls Royce. I was hacked. 286 00:18:41,000 --> 00:18:43,199 Speaker 2: Everything's fine now, I hopefully it says that way. I 287 00:18:43,240 --> 00:18:45,199 Speaker 2: did not get a Rolls. I am not anti Rolls, 288 00:18:46,320 --> 00:18:48,760 Speaker 2: but I don't see me buying a Rolls Rice. 289 00:18:48,880 --> 00:18:49,200 Speaker 3: Now. 290 00:18:49,760 --> 00:18:53,199 Speaker 2: I did almost over the weekend by a Portie, but 291 00:18:53,400 --> 00:18:54,400 Speaker 2: it was not a new one. 292 00:18:56,240 --> 00:18:57,800 Speaker 3: It was used. It was an eighty one. 293 00:18:59,080 --> 00:19:04,320 Speaker 2: It's very I might still do it, but the people 294 00:19:04,320 --> 00:19:06,320 Speaker 2: who know me are like you'd get a Porscha over 295 00:19:06,359 --> 00:19:09,560 Speaker 2: a Cadillac. I am looking at a nineteen seventy four 296 00:19:09,640 --> 00:19:14,520 Speaker 2: El Dorado right now that has an interior that. 297 00:19:14,560 --> 00:19:22,320 Speaker 3: Looks like your great grandmother's couch. That it's so cool 298 00:19:22,440 --> 00:19:25,600 Speaker 3: landing hole that is my speed. 299 00:19:26,600 --> 00:19:29,160 Speaker 2: So if you ever see a post that somehow I've 300 00:19:29,200 --> 00:19:34,080 Speaker 2: bought a Rolls Royce, ask yourself. 301 00:19:34,640 --> 00:19:36,560 Speaker 3: Has he put on one hundred stations recently? 302 00:19:37,200 --> 00:19:40,040 Speaker 2: And if not, then no, I didn't get a roll 303 00:19:40,840 --> 00:19:45,320 Speaker 2: This is Tony Katsna. The rumormill moved fast this morning, 304 00:19:45,359 --> 00:19:52,520 Speaker 2: and it turns out to be accurate. Tim Walls, the 305 00:19:52,640 --> 00:19:59,560 Speaker 2: governor of Minnesota. I don't think he sounds like that, 306 00:19:59,640 --> 00:20:03,199 Speaker 2: but sure he is not running for reelection. He was, 307 00:20:04,880 --> 00:20:10,800 Speaker 2: and he has made the difficult decision not to run 308 00:20:10,880 --> 00:20:14,919 Speaker 2: for reelection. Tony Katz, Tony Katz today, good to be 309 00:20:14,960 --> 00:20:20,359 Speaker 2: with you. Translation. This Somali fraud medicaid scandal that his 310 00:20:20,400 --> 00:20:25,479 Speaker 2: administration absolutely allowed to happen has just taken over his 311 00:20:25,520 --> 00:20:30,080 Speaker 2: life and it will be too difficult for him. So 312 00:20:30,160 --> 00:20:33,639 Speaker 2: he went from being a vice presidential contender. 313 00:20:36,920 --> 00:20:38,040 Speaker 3: Let's make sure we're clear. 314 00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:42,600 Speaker 2: Tim Walls went from being a vice presidential contender to 315 00:20:42,680 --> 00:20:45,600 Speaker 2: being the top contender to be a contributor at MS 316 00:20:45,600 --> 00:20:53,760 Speaker 2: now in sixteen months. That's that is something else. So 317 00:20:53,800 --> 00:21:06,840 Speaker 2: he had himself a press conference today. 318 00:21:07,880 --> 00:21:09,920 Speaker 3: Well, good morning everyone, in happy new year. 319 00:21:10,680 --> 00:21:13,760 Speaker 4: Like many Minnesotans, I have to tell you, I was 320 00:21:13,800 --> 00:21:15,760 Speaker 4: glad to turn the page on twenty twenty five. 321 00:21:16,280 --> 00:21:18,800 Speaker 3: It was an exirly difficult. 322 00:21:18,359 --> 00:21:20,840 Speaker 4: Year for our state, and it ended on. 323 00:21:20,840 --> 00:21:24,080 Speaker 3: A particularly sour note. For the last several years, an. 324 00:21:24,080 --> 00:21:26,679 Speaker 4: Organized group of criminals have sought to take advantage of 325 00:21:26,680 --> 00:21:29,960 Speaker 4: this state's generosity, and even as we make progress in 326 00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:32,560 Speaker 4: the fight against the fraudsters. We now see an organized 327 00:21:32,600 --> 00:21:35,120 Speaker 4: group of political actors seeking to take advantage of a. 328 00:21:35,080 --> 00:21:42,280 Speaker 2: Crisis that's so ugly and so gross. Can we start 329 00:21:42,720 --> 00:21:46,080 Speaker 2: truly at where we need to start? And that's not 330 00:21:46,320 --> 00:21:49,239 Speaker 2: even the level of fraud that's taking place not just 331 00:21:49,280 --> 00:21:52,199 Speaker 2: in Minnesota, but all across the country, where you have 332 00:21:52,400 --> 00:21:56,679 Speaker 2: groups of people, not just Somali nationals, engaged in creating 333 00:21:56,720 --> 00:22:01,000 Speaker 2: these fraudulent daycare centers claiming their feet in kids. Nobody's checking, 334 00:22:01,080 --> 00:22:04,760 Speaker 2: nobody does the looking. They're taking in millions of dollars individually. 335 00:22:04,960 --> 00:22:09,200 Speaker 2: There's twenty seven businesses at this one location. This office 336 00:22:09,240 --> 00:22:13,840 Speaker 2: complex has fourteen businesses exactly the same, sometimes owned by 337 00:22:13,880 --> 00:22:17,680 Speaker 2: the same people. No one looked, no one cared to look. 338 00:22:17,960 --> 00:22:23,400 Speaker 2: The fraud is massive and widespread, massive and widespread. 339 00:22:23,400 --> 00:22:25,879 Speaker 3: But allow me to start where this story should start. 340 00:22:27,720 --> 00:22:32,480 Speaker 2: This guy, the governor, who wants to blame people like 341 00:22:32,600 --> 00:22:37,200 Speaker 2: Nick Shirley and you and me for paying attention. That's 342 00:22:37,240 --> 00:22:42,360 Speaker 2: what has him angered that we're paying attention. This guy 343 00:22:42,440 --> 00:22:47,000 Speaker 2: ran for vice president of the United States. Where was 344 00:22:47,040 --> 00:22:52,600 Speaker 2: the story about this from the mainstream press? Where were 345 00:22:52,600 --> 00:22:56,239 Speaker 2: the continual stories about the fraud of the people of 346 00:22:56,280 --> 00:23:02,640 Speaker 2: Minnesota there were none. There were none, And you and I, 347 00:23:04,080 --> 00:23:06,800 Speaker 2: you and me having a bourbon sitting on the barstool. 348 00:23:07,240 --> 00:23:11,440 Speaker 3: We know the answer to this before anybody says another word. 349 00:23:11,560 --> 00:23:14,359 Speaker 3: Why were there no stories? Right? 350 00:23:14,840 --> 00:23:17,720 Speaker 2: You're one thousand percent correct because it would have hurt 351 00:23:17,800 --> 00:23:21,600 Speaker 2: him and Kamala Harris in beating Donald Trump, so they 352 00:23:21,680 --> 00:23:25,159 Speaker 2: kept it quiet. I want to make sure that that 353 00:23:25,560 --> 00:23:29,439 Speaker 2: always stays front and center in our minds, that this 354 00:23:29,680 --> 00:23:30,920 Speaker 2: is something we should have. 355 00:23:31,040 --> 00:23:32,159 Speaker 3: Well known about. 356 00:23:33,280 --> 00:23:39,080 Speaker 2: And the reason we didn't is because politically the media 357 00:23:39,160 --> 00:23:42,160 Speaker 2: did not care about the scandal. They don't care about 358 00:23:42,200 --> 00:23:44,280 Speaker 2: the scan, they don't care about the grip, they don't 359 00:23:44,280 --> 00:23:46,919 Speaker 2: care about the fraud, they don't care about the money 360 00:23:46,960 --> 00:23:48,480 Speaker 2: lost and the people screwed. 361 00:23:50,240 --> 00:23:55,560 Speaker 3: They care that they win. That's who they are. 362 00:23:57,560 --> 00:24:02,520 Speaker 2: There is no way this story isn't something that gets 363 00:24:02,520 --> 00:24:05,919 Speaker 2: discussed during a presidential election when it's a vice presidential 364 00:24:05,920 --> 00:24:10,080 Speaker 2: candidate who leads the state. And there were people talking 365 00:24:10,119 --> 00:24:12,920 Speaker 2: about these things on the local level in Minnesota, people 366 00:24:12,960 --> 00:24:16,919 Speaker 2: like j Coles Kolls and others, and they deserve our 367 00:24:16,960 --> 00:24:21,200 Speaker 2: respect and our thanks. We don't get to see every story. 368 00:24:21,240 --> 00:24:22,960 Speaker 3: We live where we live. We've got the. 369 00:24:22,920 --> 00:24:25,400 Speaker 2: Things that we're dealing with. And it's a question whether 370 00:24:25,480 --> 00:24:31,280 Speaker 2: things bubble up. In this case, it should have. And 371 00:24:31,359 --> 00:24:34,600 Speaker 2: I'll say, as a guy who does this, man, I 372 00:24:34,680 --> 00:24:36,640 Speaker 2: should have seen I should have seen that. I should 373 00:24:36,680 --> 00:24:38,920 Speaker 2: have known about that. I should have been talking about it. 374 00:24:38,920 --> 00:24:41,760 Speaker 2: I should have been engaging in it. And it's a 375 00:24:41,800 --> 00:24:44,920 Speaker 2: reminder to me to be much more focused on these 376 00:24:44,960 --> 00:24:49,280 Speaker 2: local stories, even than I already am. But the media 377 00:24:49,320 --> 00:24:53,680 Speaker 2: that covers things every day, this is a blatant act 378 00:24:53,760 --> 00:25:01,080 Speaker 2: of suppression, blatant and never would have occurred if Walls 379 00:25:01,119 --> 00:25:02,480 Speaker 2: was a Republican And you. 380 00:25:02,480 --> 00:25:05,320 Speaker 3: Know it, and I know it, and they know it, 381 00:25:05,560 --> 00:25:06,600 Speaker 3: and he knows it. 382 00:25:06,920 --> 00:25:09,840 Speaker 2: So he can get as angry at Nick Shirley and 383 00:25:09,880 --> 00:25:11,920 Speaker 2: the people who have been talking about this story now 384 00:25:11,960 --> 00:25:18,119 Speaker 2: as he wants. Who cares He saw the fraud, he 385 00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:23,000 Speaker 2: allowed the fraud. He continues, I don't want to mince 386 00:25:23,040 --> 00:25:23,560 Speaker 2: words here. 387 00:25:23,960 --> 00:25:26,400 Speaker 4: Donald Trump and his allies in Washington and in Saint 388 00:25:26,480 --> 00:25:30,160 Speaker 4: Paul and online want to make our state a colder, 389 00:25:30,240 --> 00:25:30,919 Speaker 4: meaner place. 390 00:25:31,880 --> 00:25:34,560 Speaker 2: First of all, it's hard to get colder than Minnesota. Secondly, 391 00:25:34,800 --> 00:25:38,840 Speaker 2: what allies does Donald Trump have in Saint Paul? Can 392 00:25:38,880 --> 00:25:43,200 Speaker 2: someone would someone do me a favor? Someone in the 393 00:25:42,920 --> 00:25:44,840 Speaker 2: in the in the chat room there in the livestream, 394 00:25:45,440 --> 00:25:48,840 Speaker 2: would you do me a favor and would you look 395 00:25:48,960 --> 00:25:54,600 Speaker 2: up the registrations in Saint Paul, Minnesota, Republicans a Democrat 396 00:25:55,040 --> 00:25:58,560 Speaker 2: and see what the favorability is to Democrats. 397 00:25:59,480 --> 00:26:01,640 Speaker 3: You would offer see this as a D plus right, 398 00:26:01,840 --> 00:26:02,800 Speaker 3: D plus seven. 399 00:26:02,600 --> 00:26:06,639 Speaker 2: Which means the registration would favor Republicans Democrats by seven points. 400 00:26:06,920 --> 00:26:09,320 Speaker 2: In some place else that might be Republicans by four points. 401 00:26:09,720 --> 00:26:13,680 Speaker 2: What is the D plus there Saint Paul, Minnesota. I've 402 00:26:13,720 --> 00:26:16,679 Speaker 2: never looked it up. He just had this press conference. 403 00:26:16,680 --> 00:26:18,560 Speaker 2: It's the first time seeing it. Just like you, we're 404 00:26:18,560 --> 00:26:24,480 Speaker 2: doing this together. What allies does Trump have in Saint Paul? 405 00:26:29,359 --> 00:26:35,240 Speaker 2: It's just such garbage. It's Trump's fault that people are noticing. 406 00:26:38,119 --> 00:26:42,280 Speaker 2: Listen to his argument. His argument is, how dare you 407 00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:43,720 Speaker 2: notice and talk about it? 408 00:26:44,040 --> 00:26:47,120 Speaker 4: They want to poison our people against each other by 409 00:26:47,160 --> 00:26:50,600 Speaker 4: attacking our neighbors, and ultimately they want to take away 410 00:26:50,800 --> 00:26:53,520 Speaker 4: much of what makes Minnesota the best place in the 411 00:26:53,560 --> 00:26:57,080 Speaker 4: country to raise a family. They've already begun trying to 412 00:26:57,119 --> 00:26:59,800 Speaker 4: withhold funds that were meant to help families afford child 413 00:27:00,960 --> 00:27:04,360 Speaker 4: and they have no intention of stopping there. Make no mistake, 414 00:27:04,960 --> 00:27:08,720 Speaker 4: we should be concerned about fraud in our state government. 415 00:27:09,160 --> 00:27:13,080 Speaker 4: We cannot effectively deliver programs and services if we can't 416 00:27:13,080 --> 00:27:15,800 Speaker 4: earn the public's trust. That's why over the past few 417 00:27:15,880 --> 00:27:19,199 Speaker 4: years we've made systemic changes in the way we do business. 418 00:27:19,640 --> 00:27:22,000 Speaker 3: Yeah, let's talk about the systemic changes. 419 00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:26,720 Speaker 2: By the way, Sarah, who runs all our digital found 420 00:27:26,720 --> 00:27:34,160 Speaker 2: the number Saint Paul, Minnesota seventy one point five percent Democrat. 421 00:27:36,760 --> 00:27:39,720 Speaker 3: What the hell is he saying? What is he saying? 422 00:27:40,880 --> 00:27:42,720 Speaker 3: Trump's allies in Saint Paul. 423 00:27:44,040 --> 00:27:53,399 Speaker 2: Three out of every four citizens a Democrat. I'm glad 424 00:27:53,400 --> 00:27:55,320 Speaker 2: he notices we should do something about fraud. I don't 425 00:27:55,320 --> 00:27:57,000 Speaker 2: know why he didn't do it. I don't know why 426 00:27:57,000 --> 00:28:00,760 Speaker 2: he didn't ring the bell and say, hey, Biden administration 427 00:28:00,880 --> 00:28:04,480 Speaker 2: helped me out with this, unless, of course, by an 428 00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:05,719 Speaker 2: administration was cool with it. 429 00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:08,800 Speaker 4: We've gone to the legislature time and time again to 430 00:28:08,840 --> 00:28:10,480 Speaker 4: get more tools to combat fraud. 431 00:28:11,280 --> 00:28:16,760 Speaker 3: We've hired people who what tool did you need to 432 00:28:16,800 --> 00:28:17,520 Speaker 3: combat fraud? 433 00:28:19,280 --> 00:28:24,560 Speaker 2: What what tool was not out at your disposal to 434 00:28:24,640 --> 00:28:28,080 Speaker 2: combat fraud? What laws already existed on the books? Why 435 00:28:28,160 --> 00:28:32,640 Speaker 2: not just not approve anybody? Why not just stop the funding. 436 00:28:33,080 --> 00:28:34,400 Speaker 2: Stop it cold. 437 00:28:34,640 --> 00:28:38,480 Speaker 3: Until you've done an audit of every single childcare center. 438 00:28:41,680 --> 00:28:44,920 Speaker 2: All I know is the woman who runs that stuff 439 00:28:45,320 --> 00:28:48,200 Speaker 2: was out there saying we did a look, and everybody's 440 00:28:48,240 --> 00:28:51,760 Speaker 2: on the up and up, and of course CNN did 441 00:28:51,760 --> 00:28:55,000 Speaker 2: the same. Well, we called some daycare centers and we 442 00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:57,040 Speaker 2: were only able to speak to one, but they told 443 00:28:57,120 --> 00:28:59,880 Speaker 2: us they were totally legit, and we believed it. And 444 00:29:00,080 --> 00:29:02,040 Speaker 2: then we saw them later and they gave us a 445 00:29:02,040 --> 00:29:04,720 Speaker 2: note written by their mom and crayon, and we're like, oh, 446 00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:10,520 Speaker 2: now we've got substantial proof everything's fine. Those wascly Republicans 447 00:29:10,640 --> 00:29:11,560 Speaker 2: and their lies. 448 00:29:13,720 --> 00:29:14,000 Speaker 3: Guys. 449 00:29:14,040 --> 00:29:19,400 Speaker 2: Do you ever wonder why we drink the bourbon? Seventy 450 00:29:19,440 --> 00:29:24,640 Speaker 2: one percent Democrat? And he thinks that there's some great 451 00:29:24,680 --> 00:29:27,640 Speaker 2: cabal against him In Minnesota, who weren't. 452 00:29:27,360 --> 00:29:29,960 Speaker 4: We fired people who weren't doing their jobs. We've seen 453 00:29:29,960 --> 00:29:32,880 Speaker 4: people go to jail for stealing from our state. We've 454 00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:35,760 Speaker 4: cut off whole streams of funding in partnership with the 455 00:29:35,760 --> 00:29:40,040 Speaker 4: federal government where we saw widespread criminal activity. We put 456 00:29:40,080 --> 00:29:42,800 Speaker 4: new locks on the doors of our remaining programs, and 457 00:29:42,840 --> 00:29:45,239 Speaker 4: we've hired a new head of program integrity to make 458 00:29:45,280 --> 00:29:48,760 Speaker 4: sure that those locks can't be broken all across this state. 459 00:29:49,320 --> 00:29:51,560 Speaker 4: Minnesotans are hard at work on this problem. 460 00:29:52,920 --> 00:29:56,160 Speaker 3: What did he just say? We put new locks on 461 00:29:56,240 --> 00:29:57,280 Speaker 3: the doors, hold on. 462 00:29:57,760 --> 00:30:00,600 Speaker 4: To make sure that those locks can't be broken all 463 00:30:00,640 --> 00:30:03,080 Speaker 4: across this We put new locks on the doors of 464 00:30:03,080 --> 00:30:05,840 Speaker 4: our remaining programs, and we've hired a new head of 465 00:30:05,880 --> 00:30:08,400 Speaker 4: program integrity to make sure that those locks can't be 466 00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:10,800 Speaker 4: broken all across this Can. 467 00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:14,640 Speaker 3: I can I get the name of this diversity higher? No? Oh, oh, 468 00:30:14,680 --> 00:30:16,959 Speaker 3: the new head isn't the DEI thing? Hey, I don't know, 469 00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:19,840 Speaker 3: I don't know who it is. But what a thing 470 00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:24,120 Speaker 3: to say. We put locks on doors. 471 00:30:24,400 --> 00:30:29,120 Speaker 2: Wait, actual locks on doors because I was told by 472 00:30:29,160 --> 00:30:33,680 Speaker 2: the Democrats. Uh, you know, of course the doors are 473 00:30:33,680 --> 00:30:34,440 Speaker 2: already locked. 474 00:30:34,640 --> 00:30:38,880 Speaker 3: So which locks are we talking about? Let them talk 475 00:30:39,160 --> 00:30:40,160 Speaker 3: from this problem. 476 00:30:40,520 --> 00:30:46,240 Speaker 4: Advocates, administrators, investigators are on the front lines defending the 477 00:30:46,280 --> 00:30:48,840 Speaker 4: integrity of our state's programs, and I want to give 478 00:30:48,880 --> 00:30:50,680 Speaker 4: a very heartfelt thank you to all of them. 479 00:30:51,400 --> 00:30:52,280 Speaker 3: There is more to do. 480 00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:57,960 Speaker 4: A single taxpayer dollar wasted on fraud should be intolerable, 481 00:30:58,400 --> 00:31:00,320 Speaker 4: and while there's a role to play for our everyone 482 00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:05,280 Speaker 4: from the legislature to prosecutors to insurance companies to local 483 00:31:05,280 --> 00:31:09,000 Speaker 4: and county government, The buck does stop with me. My 484 00:31:09,080 --> 00:31:13,040 Speaker 4: administration has been taking fast, decisive action to solve this crisis. 485 00:31:13,480 --> 00:31:17,040 Speaker 4: We'll win the fight against the fraudsters. But the political 486 00:31:17,080 --> 00:31:19,520 Speaker 4: gamesmanship we're seeing from holds up. 487 00:31:19,640 --> 00:31:25,600 Speaker 3: Holds up? Hold up? What fast decisive action are you 488 00:31:25,720 --> 00:31:26,400 Speaker 3: referring to? 489 00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:34,000 Speaker 2: If I were to engage a bit of paraphrase here, 490 00:31:35,080 --> 00:31:37,600 Speaker 2: I would say, what is fast and decisive? Is you 491 00:31:37,760 --> 00:31:41,800 Speaker 2: realizing that the Nick Shirley video and the attention it 492 00:31:41,840 --> 00:31:44,280 Speaker 2: has garnered, and the conversations that have come from it 493 00:31:44,520 --> 00:31:48,120 Speaker 2: and from the original story by City Journal via the 494 00:31:48,160 --> 00:31:52,720 Speaker 2: Manhattan Institute, that has caused you to act This is 495 00:31:52,760 --> 00:31:56,880 Speaker 2: a great example, an absolutely fantastic example of the difference 496 00:31:56,880 --> 00:32:04,840 Speaker 2: between the thermostat and the thermometer. The thermometer registers temperature, 497 00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:13,560 Speaker 2: it takes temperature. The thermostat actually moves the temperature. And 498 00:32:13,680 --> 00:32:16,719 Speaker 2: what happened was with this Nick Shirley video, that reporting 499 00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:19,680 Speaker 2: from Crystal Rufo and City Journal is that it raised 500 00:32:19,680 --> 00:32:23,280 Speaker 2: the temperature and now you reading the temperature, were forced 501 00:32:23,280 --> 00:32:25,720 Speaker 2: to respond and deal with it. 502 00:32:26,480 --> 00:32:28,160 Speaker 3: That's how you moved fast. 503 00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:33,280 Speaker 4: But the political gamesmanship we're seeing from Republicans is only 504 00:32:33,320 --> 00:32:37,080 Speaker 4: making that fight harder. Lie, I got Republicans here in 505 00:32:37,120 --> 00:32:41,320 Speaker 4: the state legislature playing hide and seek with potential whistleblowers. 506 00:32:41,440 --> 00:32:41,480 Speaker 2: Li. 507 00:32:41,920 --> 00:32:43,720 Speaker 3: We've got conspiracy theories. 508 00:32:43,640 --> 00:32:46,760 Speaker 4: Right wing YouTubers breaking into our daycares. 509 00:32:46,840 --> 00:32:50,320 Speaker 3: No, they're not demanding access to our children. That didn't happen. 510 00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:54,280 Speaker 4: We've got the President of the United States demonizing our 511 00:32:54,280 --> 00:32:59,400 Speaker 4: Smali neighbors and wrongfully confiscating funds that Minnesotans rely on. 512 00:33:00,480 --> 00:33:02,760 Speaker 2: You can be angry at Trump's words all you want, 513 00:33:02,880 --> 00:33:05,800 Speaker 2: It does not change what has happened. And this is 514 00:33:05,840 --> 00:33:08,640 Speaker 2: why Tim Walls is not running for reelection now. 515 00:33:09,320 --> 00:33:09,840 Speaker 3: He has to. 516 00:33:09,800 --> 00:33:16,800 Speaker 2: Focus on this. It ended his political career and he 517 00:33:16,960 --> 00:33:21,240 Speaker 2: will be a contributor on MS now that is coming, 518 00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:28,920 Speaker 2: just wait for it. But blaming Republicans, that's the gamesmanship. 519 00:33:30,360 --> 00:33:35,000 Speaker 2: We're supposed to be opposed to, the fraud, all of it. 520 00:33:38,360 --> 00:33:42,120 Speaker 3: Honestly, good riddance. I'm Tony Katz angel a good. 521 00:33:41,960 --> 00:33:45,520 Speaker 2: Note over at the local Fox affiliate. 522 00:33:45,600 --> 00:33:47,440 Speaker 3: Put this story out. It's a story that could be 523 00:33:47,480 --> 00:33:48,840 Speaker 3: on your local Fox affiliate. 524 00:33:48,920 --> 00:33:54,920 Speaker 2: Tony Katz Tony kats Today, an estimated seven million dollars 525 00:33:54,960 --> 00:33:58,720 Speaker 2: in cocaine was uncovered in a semi that was driving 526 00:33:58,760 --> 00:34:01,840 Speaker 2: through an Indiana count over the weekend. Tony Katz Tony 527 00:34:01,880 --> 00:34:06,760 Speaker 2: KATX today replaced that right with Oklahoma County, Louisiana County, 528 00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:12,160 Speaker 2: uh in North Carolina County, and welcome WBT in Charlotte, 529 00:34:12,360 --> 00:34:16,120 Speaker 2: where this little show is now heard five days a 530 00:34:16,160 --> 00:34:18,920 Speaker 2: week and guys can't thank you enough for having us 531 00:34:18,960 --> 00:34:21,720 Speaker 2: and bringing us in. I gotta come for a visit 532 00:34:22,080 --> 00:34:24,680 Speaker 2: and me and Brett Winterble, we're just gonna smoke cigars. 533 00:34:24,680 --> 00:34:26,399 Speaker 2: I don't even know if Brett smoke cigars, but that's 534 00:34:26,480 --> 00:34:28,799 Speaker 2: that's going to happen. We're going to make this happen. 535 00:34:28,800 --> 00:34:31,640 Speaker 2: We're gonna bring Vince, We're gonna bring I've never met Bo. 536 00:34:32,520 --> 00:34:34,319 Speaker 2: We're gonna do the whole thing. It's gonna be it's 537 00:34:34,320 --> 00:34:36,240 Speaker 2: gonna be very very good. We gotta make this happen. 538 00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:40,839 Speaker 2: Someone find me a Charlotte cigar lounge. I'm in three 539 00:34:41,040 --> 00:34:43,960 Speaker 2: hundred pounds of cocaine. We're found in the sleeper berth 540 00:34:44,320 --> 00:34:49,239 Speaker 2: of the truck. The two drivers. There's a question of 541 00:34:49,239 --> 00:34:51,160 Speaker 2: whether or not they're in the country legally. There's a 542 00:34:51,239 --> 00:34:55,879 Speaker 2: question of how they got uh these they they how 543 00:34:55,880 --> 00:35:01,440 Speaker 2: they got their CDLs and no, uh, they they are 544 00:35:01,480 --> 00:35:06,319 Speaker 2: are people who I have the story correct, came from 545 00:35:06,360 --> 00:35:10,879 Speaker 2: another country. 546 00:35:10,920 --> 00:35:13,279 Speaker 3: This stuff is happening everywhere. 547 00:35:14,360 --> 00:35:18,759 Speaker 2: What we have done, what we have allowed to take 548 00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:23,160 Speaker 2: place when it comes to these CDLs and the people 549 00:35:23,239 --> 00:35:30,399 Speaker 2: we have allowed to drive these commercial vehicles, these two, yes, 550 00:35:30,440 --> 00:35:34,480 Speaker 2: I knew they were not American citizens because they have 551 00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:36,400 Speaker 2: ICE deportation holds. 552 00:35:40,680 --> 00:35:44,160 Speaker 3: What are we doing? We don't have enough truckers. Okay, 553 00:35:45,080 --> 00:35:49,360 Speaker 3: that's not an excuse. It's not an excuse. 554 00:35:52,160 --> 00:35:56,000 Speaker 2: We have to be very proactive in not allowing this 555 00:35:56,400 --> 00:35:59,720 Speaker 2: madness to take place where people are getting killed, drugs 556 00:35:59,719 --> 00:36:02,120 Speaker 2: are v run, and we have people who are not 557 00:36:02,280 --> 00:36:05,080 Speaker 2: citizens making this happen. 558 00:36:05,160 --> 00:36:06,040 Speaker 3: I'm Tony Dance